Payroll Manager Resume

Contact information

Brian S. Joynt

17 Street

The City of New York

Career objective

Looking for a challenging position of the Payroll Manager Resume the reputed University with a view to use my wide experience for the benefit of the organization.

DOB: 11th Sept 1967

Profile

A Payroll Manager/ Administrator with extensive PAYE, NI, SMP, SSP experience using STAR, SAGE, Cyborg, Unipay and numerous in-house systems, ensuring compliance with statutes applied to payroll operations, and with a good working knowledge of general bookkeeping and accounting functions.

A Payroll Project Manager - able to lead and coach teams in the design and implementation of testing strategies for different payroll systems and pay structures, and ensure optimum efficiency in challenging time and cost critical

Career Summary

2008 – to date Wilkins Kennedy Chartered Accountants

Payroll Administrator

Responsible for a portfolio of approx 60 clients, processing weekly and monthly payrolls to client deadlines. Ensuringpayrolls are processed in accordance with current legislation, and submissions to the Revenue each month are completed on time. Reconciling and sending end of year P35/P14 returns to Revenue ensuring deadlines are met. Liaising with Revenue on behalf of clients where they have queries, and also to set up new PAYE schemes etc. Talking to clients to give a best service and advise where necessary.

Also responsible for Maintaining client account balances using Sage Accounts

1987 – 2001 J Sainsbury plc

Deputy Payroll Manager - IT Systems Head Office, London

Contributed to JSs development during a period of change when the payroll strategy required all staff to be migrated from five totally separate payrolls / platforms – with varying pay rules and conditions - across different parts of the business onto one payroll package - Cyborg

Designed, developed and co-ordinated implementation of the test strategy

across the time and cost critical branch network

Main Activities

Team meetings, defined project scope, reviewed performance against targets, reprioritised schedules, and analysed and formulated solutions to problems

Recruited, motivated and managed the development of 10 Payroll System Analysts

Designed and delivered comprehensive training courses, materials and systems manuals

Consulted with personnel to develop and map new processes and systems

Formulated software solutions, test strategies and project delivery plans for concurrently running projects, and set priorities and key milestones

Prepared, presented and negotiated project implementation plans

Developed relationships at the most senior and junior levels, overcoming resistance to change and driving added-value services

Managed quality issues to ensure delivery of best value throughout each project life-cycle Implemented governance, risk management and information security policies

Planned, allocated and coordinated resources

Co-ordinated discussions between project teams and key store personnel

Authorised system changes and resolved issues throughout each project life-cycle

Managed SLA, software licensing and copyright compliance

Designed and delivered training courses and user manuals for internal/external customers

Selected Projects

Retail payroll system (120,000 employees) rolled out over 2/3 years with 1 year testing: pay changed from in-house system to Cyborg package. Liaised with IT to ensure package complied with JS pay procedures, and with JS Depts, store staff, personnel, IT dept and Cyborg employees. Project completed on time, and no major problems with accuracy of pay

Depot payroll (8,000 employees): unionisation of depots created additional complexity and required payroll staff to provided with training manuals and training in union negotiated pay structures

Homebase payroll (12,000 employees) – transfer to JS Cyborg payroll: managed single- handedly every aspect of the development, test, migration and staff training

Main Results

Consistently met all project deliverables in terms of accuracy, time and budget

J Sainsbury plc

Assistant Payroll Manager

Provided direction and leadership to a payroll team of forty, with responsibility for managing the input and processing of payments to 120,000 personnel within tight timeframes across the UK branch network

Personally resolved payroll queries of a more complex nature from store managers, personnel managers and employees, dealt with payroll reconciliations andresolved GL imbalances

Senior Payroll Clerk

Seconded to User Testing team to carry out testing on various system amendments

Payroll Clerk Payroll Department

Data entry and various manual calculation – SSP/SMP – leavers wages for 20 stores

1986 - 1987 F W Stephens & Co Chartered Accountants London

Accounts Assistant

Assisted with double-entry bookkeeping, auditing and client payrolls using SAGE

Qualifications & Training

2006 – 2007 Teaching Assistant Certificate Bromley College

1978 – 1986 2 A-levels and 8 O-levels Coopers Grammar School

1987 – 2001 Project Management J Sainsbury in-house

Team Leadership

Coaching and Appraisal

Planning and Decision-Making

General

IT Skills MS Office: Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Driving Full, clean UK Driving Licence

Membership The Institute of Payroll and Personnel Managers

Interests Enjoy reading books from various different genres

Referees Confidential at this stage

Academic Janey Burrows, Bromley College

Professional Personnel Department, J Sainsbury plc

References

Brian S. Joynt

Manager

Wap Company.

Brian_ Joynt@gmail.com